[Melbourne-pm] Postcode verification

[Brendon Oliver]

On Thursday 15 February 2007 15:22, Leigh Sharpe wrote:
> Hi All,
>  Does anybody know of any method of looking up Australian postcodes?
> I need to validate the input on a postal address, and confirm that the
> postcode given for the suburb is correct.
> A quick search of CPAN doesn't yield anything promising.

Perhaps download the postcode database from:

http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/index.asp?sub=2

it's a CSV file which you should be able to readily parse (do I smell a CPAN 
module coming... ;-)

cheers,

- b.

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